Tugas ke 3 : Timeless bags

Niken Prathivi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Lifestyle | Sun, September 29 2013, 11:27 AM

For fashion lovers, bags are their most trusted friends.

Baqita by Igna uses leather fabric as its main material. Yet, it beautifully mixes with qualified Javanese batik garments plus colorful applications to make pretty and artsy bags.

A piece of Baqita’s premium collection, priced at Rp 3.5 million (US$306.59), has a casual yet exclusive look.

“This is our top item. The bag is made of almost-all suede leather, which is a premium, export quality one,” said owner and artisan Igna Najoan, adding that she also puts colorful ornaments on the bag to make it more playful.

Igna also makes a leather bag with a mix of batik cloth, which is produced in Serpong, Tangerang.

“I only use the best batik fabric, mostly from Java,” said Igna, who loves to hunt for luxurious pieces of batik cloth and keep it inside a closet until she finds suitable leather material.

She also loves to create beautiful bags with an artistic touch.

“We apply a pure hand-made process for all of our bags. So, we also treat the batik cloth carefully. I won’t allow the batik cloth to be randomly cut just to produce more bags, no,” she says.

Igna reveals that she needs to look at the pattern carefully before doing the cutting and applying it to the leather bag.

“First, I collect the different materials of the bag, including the plastic-made small decorative ornaments, before making an item. So, the duration for producing one bag is really tentative,” said Igna.

It only takes her four hours to sew together all materials into one bag. It only takes more time when the material isn’t complete.

^1. Igna says that all materials are obtained locally, especially from Central Java.

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Farida Jusina, one of the craft makers of the Bandung-based DI Studio, got into the business with several of her friends out of a passion for handicraft. They produced several craft and souvenir products, including plaited bags with ribbon embroidery.

^2. “The ribbon embroidery is our signature. The bags are originally from Tasikmalaya,” she says.

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Ø  It is also saying exactly what Farida Jusina has said.

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DI Studio’s plaited bags are for everyone, says Farida. “We’ve received some orders from overseas, like the US, the Netherlands and Malaysia. Yet, it also steals some attention from the local market.” “We do all the designs,” says Farida.

^3. She added that all of his bags are produced hand-made with local leather.

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Ø  Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Ø  When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:

1. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence

2. The finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)

3. The subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)

DI Studio makes plaited hand bags from mendong, or swamp grass, and eceng gondok, or water hyacinth. Prices start from Rp 275,000.

source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/09/29/timeless-bags.html

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